The Biden-era FBI’s efforts targeting traditionalist Catholics were far more extensive than previously known and involved personnel from multiple field offices, according to newly revealed documents that contradict former FBI director Christopher Wray’s congressional testimony.
The FBI’s focus on traditionalist Catholics was revealed in February 2023, when a former agent published a leaked memo produced by the bureau’s Richmond, Va. field office warning against the emerging threat posed by “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology.”
The Richmond memo was largely based on the findings of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has a record of maligning conservative groups as “extremist.” The memo was distributed to more than 1,000 FBI employees but was later retracted after a public backlash.
When then-FBI director Christopher Wray was called before Congress to answer for the memo, he insisted that it was the product of a single field office and did not lead to any actual investigative operations.
But new FBI records obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley suggest the bureau’s targeting of traditionalist Catholics was more widespread than Wray indicated.
In addition to the memo, the FBI produced over a dozen documents and five attachments using anti-Catholic terminology, Grassley found. A second anti-Catholic memo was drafted and never published because of the backlash to the initial Richmond memo.
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